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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 7, 2016Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at May 7, 2016, 5:41 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2016, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS

County Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 250 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

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Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 7, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 3:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
303 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2016

KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-082015-
TREGO-ELLIS-SCOTT-LANE-NESS-RUSH-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-HODGEMAN-
PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-
PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER-
303 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2016 /203 PM MDT SAT MAY 7 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH
CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

DISCUSSION...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. COVERAGE AND MOISTURE WILL BE
LIMITED...BUT ANY STORM THAT DOES DEVELOP MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER. STORMS WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET THIS
EVENING.

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...

  ELEVATED HAIL RISK.
  ELEVATED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK.
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  LIMITED NON THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK.
  LIMITED FIRE WEATHER RISK.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

DISCUSSION...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ON
SUNDAY. STORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO FAVOR AREAS NEAR AND EAST OF
DODGE CITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
PRODUCE VERY LARGE HAIL TO BASEBALL SIZE AND TORNADOES. THE RISK
FOR VERY LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS, AND TORNADOES SUNDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING IS HIGHEST ACROSS STAFFORD, PRATT AND BARBER
COUNTIES. MORE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AS FAR
WEST AS NEAR DODGE CITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

HAZARDS WEATHER RISK...

  SUNDAY...
  ELEVATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK.

  MONDAY... LIMITED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK.

  TUESDAY...
  ELEVATED LIGHTNING RISK.

  WEDNESDAY...
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.

  THURSDAY...
  NO HAZARDS.

  FRIDAY...
  NO HAZARDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY OR TONIGHT FOR
WESTERN AND NORTHERN COUNTIES.

&&

FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT OUR WEBPAGE HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC/EHWO

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 7, 5:41 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
541 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2016

KSZ061-062-072330-
KEARNY KS-HAMILTON KS-
541 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN HAMILTON AND
NORTHERN KEARNY COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM CDT/530 PM MDT/...

AT 539 PM CDT/439 PM MDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF TRIBUNE TO
15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LYDIA TO 2 MILES NORTH OF KENDALL. MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KENDALL.

LAT...LON 3826 10114 3802 10113 3783 10161 3813 10164
      3826 10175
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 229DEG 47KT 3838 10172 3819 10156 3797 10154

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Kearny	40 min
May 7, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	33 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.